Politician Quotes

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

I'm glad I'm not a politician.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

A newborn has more skills than does a politician. The infant babbles, burbles, cuddles, coos; the politician just babbles.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

Remember, success for a politician is 50% plus one. You don't have to have everybody on board.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

[Donald] Trump is still Trump, and that means he says things that politicians just don't say.

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

I can't believe I'm saying I'm a politician, but I guess that's what I am now.

I've never been a politician, but , I am totally committed to the Republican Party. I feel very honored to be the front runner.

I am proudly not a politician, because I am not behold to any special interest.

[Hillary Clinton] is typical politician. All talk, no action.

I think [Vladimir] Putin probably assumes he can't make a deal with me anymore because politically it would be unpopular for a politician to be making a deal.

I notice anytime anything wrong happens, establishment politicians like to say the Russians.

Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency.

I have always thought that Donald Trump was an incredibly clever politician, but he's - at some point he's going to become unwound and maybe this is it.

I know politicians - I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you [Ted Cruz] do. And it's not good.